Hartmann: If you don’t have a job - you’re not free
For the last 30 years or so - Republicans have defined what freedom means in America. At the debate this week - Ron Paul told us what it means to be “free” in America. As in - freedom to die alone. Just like what happened to Ron Paul’s campaigning manager - Kent Snyder - back in 2008 - when he contracted pneumonia - spent 2 months in the hospital - and died 0000 in debt - because he didn’t have health insurance. Ron Paul doesn’t even give his campaign staff health insurance - I guess because he wants them to be “free.” We’re free alright - free to go hungry - free to be poor - free to be jobless - free to breathe toxic air and drink dirty water - and free to get sick and die - and all the while, free from the government helping us. We need to once again ask ourselves what it means to be free - because for the vast majority of Americans - this new definition of freedom just isn’t working. Anthropologically speaking - historically speaking - humans have never bought into this bizarre new Republican - or Ayn Rand - notion of “freedom.” For thousands of years we’ve organized ourselves into groups - in families - in tribes - in cities - in nations - just so we could all collectively provide each other enough basic protections and safety to live more free lives. That’s the point of a democratic government in a republic like ours - to guarantee our freedom both from government intrusion but also from want, destitution, disease, and from the corporate predators around us. It’s …
Hartmann: If you don’t have a job - you’re not free
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@wateryskipper I’m glad you know the future…that must be a nice gift
So…no hope then huh?
@gladiator1010 the problem lies with us but there are people that are incapable of this. this is not a black and white issue. also the greed is out of control where you can see that 1% of the population has more wealth than the millions in our country put together. THese are the psychopaths that would rather destroy the enviornment and people for the sake of hoarding money. The scenario that you speak of just will not happen.
@wateryskipper But, really, the problem lies with us, because we refuse to learn contract law and learn how to handle our matters as the administrator of the legal person. We can easily influence and control our own lives, and if enough implemented operating in commerce with honor then our world would change dramatically.
@chilidoggingfool you
@gladiator1010 correction…corporations buying out the government got us in this friggin mess….
Who is this jackass
@Homer177 Would you consider The Federal Reserve Banksters the super rich?
Should we borrow some more money from them with interest?
It should be easy for them considering they can print it out of thin air.
We don’t need obamacare, a $2000 voucher would protect everyone. The best thing to free everyone to eliminate minimum wage, all unions, balance the budget, and go to full reserve banking. As long as Hartman paints my fence and pays my electric bill ak ok. But EVERYTHING this moron preaches takes money from the poor and gives it to rich government workers. USA became superpower due to corporatism.
if you don’t have chains you aren’t free
@xxcrysad3000xx Libertarians are anarchists ! Pure and simple! They believe people should be able to do whatever the hell they want.No rules.This would be a particular advantage to the already rich and powerful as well as certain criminal elements in our society.We would basically be thrown back in to the days when the robber barons ran this country.Justice for the lower classes would be a thing of the past!
Financial Enemy of Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Portugal,? &? America - Jew
1.? Goldman Sachs CEO,? Lyold? Blankfein - Jew
2.? IMF Deputy CEO, John??? Lisky -? Jew
3.? Ex IMF CEO, Dominic Strauss -?Jew
4.? World?? Bank CEO, Robert Zoellick - Jew?
5. Ex World Bank CEO,?? James Woolfesen -Jew
6. Fed Chairman,??? Ben? Bernanke -Jew
7. Ex Fed Chairman, Alan? Greenspan -Jew
8. Obama Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner -?Jew
9.? George Bush Treasury Secretary,? Hank Paulson -?Jew
@Homer177 that is left wing jargon…as a Canadian libertarian, I dont care about the super rich, I care about losing my hard earned cash and time to the government and people being so generous that they want to share MY money too….I dont condone rape at all….moron
Thom you are absolutely right!!!! Freedom is the ability to live a happy and meaningful life with employment and health for all; because we all depend on one another and our well-being is all inter-connected.
Technocracy is anything but freedom, using Jesuitical propaganda tactics isn’t foolin anyone.
Ron Paul has had no effect on public policy other than a change of mind. Why are people changing their minds? BECAUSE THE DIRECTION IS OBVIOUSLY THE WRONG ONE!
I really don’t see how these Romanists can blame all our current problems on a man that has had virtually no effect on public policy….completely absurd!
Ignorance is the only thing keeping us slaves.
Freedom comes from correct application of knowledge.
All I want is government to stop snuffing out innovation any way they possibly can.
Should we not be abhorred at such incredible medical bills that cost as much as a home? For what? Pneumonia?
Give me a break.
the government created this mess, how are they going to help us? We are not free now, this is the whole friggin point.
That is why things are a mess
Look at the insane taxation in the USA today. Has? this caused a mass exodus? Over 60% of your income is taxed now! Yet they want us to believe a tax rate of around 2.5% forced people to leave Britain? No wonder this is called “higher” education. You literally need to be high on drugs to fall for it.
WHO TORTURES AND KILLS? WHO DOES KKK LOOK LIKE?
Yes, the Jesuits are the real hand of satan on earth
Protestant liberty is real and worth fighting for!
It was clearly recorded many times over that people being cut in half, buried alive, and burned alive by Roman Catholic priests caused thousands to brave the dangerous high seas for a better land not yet affected by Roman rule. People don’t risk life and limb for a few dollars per year being wrenched from their hands. Revolutions are the end result of such acts. Only certain death would force entire families to leave their? homes for uncharted lands! Want proof?
@Homer177 And yet,
“Looking at the grade schools and high schools we now? see we have to deal with the altered historic records designed to hide the truth about why people came to this nation in the first place. It wasn’t British taxation that forced this nation’s birth.
phail
There are no sides, unless you want there to be. To say one is better than the other simply shows how little investment you have placed in learning your history… We the people to be self governed has been completely trashed by the turn of our first century as a nation. By the sound of Hartmans words, its as if he’s all for big gov. He can do well
without the sidesaddle mud throwing.
Not one Dem have I heard in the last 30 years has ever touted anything resembling what this man just said… not that any republican has either, its just an observation. State gov and u.s. gov are two different things. roads and water were in the hands of the state to regulate, before the states became greedy little do nothings suckling off the u.s. gov for subsidies and kickbacks, while selling out the occupants of their states one by one, but mostly enmasse…
A little bias for democrats in general but Hartman does have a point freedom is not do it yourself attitude it is collective support as opposed to elitism.
But Hartman you are mistaken if you think for a second any democrats are going do a damn thing different.
Voting is as useless as pissing in the wind
When Marie Antoinette was told that the peasants had no bread to eat, she advised… “Let them eat cake” …too bad she probably never said that, but we do have Paul saying “I would advise him to have a major medical policy”.
What a dick.
Americans are free…to go shopping
Democrats are just a slightly lesser evil.
American Political scene sadly is lacking true independent, empathetic and honest people.